10.0/102 votes#1 - An Orphan Walks Into A Bar
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2012
After recovering one of John Fogerty’s beloved guitars, Iraq veteran Walter Sherman helps a teenage boy locate his missing father, a military pilot and war hero whose plane vanished after embarking on an undisclosed mission.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Hart Hanson
10.0/101 votes#2 - The Boy With The Bucket
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/11/2012
When Langston, Walter's older brother comes to town, he asks Walter to go see their dying father whose last wish is for Walter to find his first love... Walter and Langston's mother. Additionally, a stolen painting he had previously found for a museum turns out to be fake, so now Walter must either find the original or return his finder's fee. Meanwhile, Willa struggles with her upcoming marriage to Timo, which is now only one week away.
Director: Vahan Moosekian
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.7/1012 votes#3 - The Parts in the Sum of the Whole
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 4/8/2010
When Dr. Sweets' book gets published, both Booth and Brennan read it and tell him about the first time they met: 6 years ago. The episode will give a new perspective on Booth and Brennan's relationship, and will also give viewers the chance to see Zack Addy again, and Dr Saroyan as a New York Coroner.
Director: David Boreanaz
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.6/1013 votes#4 - The Woman in Limbo
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2006
Brennan receives some bones to identify, but is stunned when she discovers that the remains are those of her mother who disappeared when she was 15 years old. The determined date of her mother's death leaves Bones confused and angry.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.4/1013 votes#5 - Judas on a Pole
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/2006
Booth and Brennan are called to the scene where a man's body was found hung like a scarecrow, gutted, and burned on the roof of a building used by the FBI to hide witnesses.
Director: David Duchovny
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.2/1014 votes#6 - The Man in the Fallout Shelter
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2005
Brennan and her team are brought in to identify the body of a man found in a fallout shelter. While cutting into the bones of the man, Zach accidentally releases a deadly fungus, causing the team to be quarantined over Christmas.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.2/1010 votes#7 - The Change in the Game
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 5/19/2011
In the 6th season finale, the team investigates the disturbing, unidentifiable remains of a bowler that were found jammed in one of the bowling alley's automatic pinsetters. After hitting a dead end in the case, Booth and Brennan decide to go undercover and join a competitive bowling team in search of answers.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.1/1010 votes#8 - The Mastodon in the Room
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2010
With Cam’s reputation and career on the line, the team travels from overseas to help her solve the case of an unidentified young boy. The Forensics Anthropology Unit lost much of its vigor after disbanding to pursue personal ventures, and it will take the collaborative energy and knowledge of the newly reunited team to unravel evidence and find closure for the family of the unknown boy. After unearthing new clues in the lab and making unexpected personal discoveries, the team realizes they belong back in Washington, D.C.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.0/1012 votes#9 - The Beginning in the End
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/2010
The team works to uncover clues buried under a life’s worth of possessions saved by a hoarder in order to solve the mystery of his death. Meanwhile, Angela’s father has a specific purpose for his most recent visit, and Brennan and Booth are confronted with unique opportunities.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.0/101 votes#10 - Willy Santayana
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1998
When Gavin Yeung, a wealthy Chinese teenager, commits suicide in jail cell, it brings up haunting memories for Logozzo of a similar suicide when he was a young cop; a young Philippino teen named Guillermo Santayana, also from an extremely wealthy family. The situation and people involved are enough for McCormick to reopen the case of Willy Santayana and to investigate not only Newlock and Stollard, but Logozzo as well. She and Logozzo, who is looking into the Gavin Yeung charge despite being warned off, need to be careful though, because Ross doesn't want them anywhere near the case. When Logozzo goes calling on Neil Stollard, an old comrade who now works at the jail, and causes repercussions, Ross warns them to stay away from the active case. Eddie and Cortez take the Maurice Patterson case, Cortez because she refuses to have anything to do with the Santayana / Yeung case.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.0/109 votes#11 - The Pain in the Heart
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 5/19/2008
The Gormogon serial killer is back again, and the silver skeleton from the basement vault has gone missing. All the Jeffersonian employees become suspects, with the scary possibility that one of their own is working with Gormogon.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.0/1036 votes#12 - The Nox
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/12/1997
Pressed by the government to acquire new technologies, SG-1 is led to a world inhabited by a seemingly primative race. When Apophis arrives, SG-1 ambush him with disasterous consequences.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Hart Hanson
8.0/1013 votes#13 - The Future in the Past
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/2012
Having been accused of murder, Brennan is on the run from the FBI, with help from her father Max. Booth and the Jeffersonian team are convinced evil tech genius Christopher Pelant has manipulated key evidence in the case to pinpoint Brennan as the prime suspect. Then, an anonymous tip leads the team to the remains of a high school guidance counselor that may hold the key to proving Brennan's innocence.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.9/109 votes#14 - Stargazer in a Puddle
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/16/2007
When Angela draws the face of an old woman to go with the decomposed skeleton of someone much younger, they soon learn the victim had Progeria, an aging disease. Booth and Brennan investigate to discover who would want to kill such a fragile person. Meanwhile, Hodgins and Angela's walk down the aisle doesn't go as planned.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.9/1011 votes#15 - The Widow's Son in the Windshield
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2007
After a skull smashes into the windshield of a teenager's car, the investigation reveals the skull has been gnawed on by human teeth, which implies cannibalism and marks the beginning of the Widow's Son case. Meanwhile, Angela and Hodgins hire a private investigator to find her husband. Bones searches for Zach's replacement and the team gets a wonderful surprise.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.8/1012 votes#16 - Yanks in the U.K. (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2008
Season four begins all the way in England, with Booth speaking at Scotland Yard and Brennan guest-lecturing at the prestigious Oxford University. Knowing of Booth and Brennan's expertise in their respective fields, local officials ask for their help with a high-profile murder investigation that involves a British heiress.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.8/1013 votes#17 - The End in the Beginning
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 5/14/2009
In the season finale, a dead body is found at a club called "The Lab." The team has to do some unexpected and unusual things that have to do with this club. Brennan and Booth may become a couple.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.7/103 votes#18 - Catch and Release
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2004
A client of Crane, Poole & Schmidt want to build a shopping mall on an area where salmon are spawning and Denny’s son is the environmental lawyer defending the area. Alan and Lori take a sexual harassment case and learn that Christine, whom he recently helped get released from a mental institution and who he now fears is stalking him, is opposing counsel. Sally has her first trial case where she defends a man who is accused of stealing a wallet.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.7/1017 votes#19 - A Boy in a Tree
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2005
When the decaying corpse of the Venezuelan Ambassador's son is found hanging from a tree on the campus of an exclusive private school, a simple suicide case quickly turns into a web of lies, sex and scandal involving the school's staff and students.
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.6/1014 votes#20 - The Finder
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/21/2011
The remains of a maritime museum security guard are found in the Florida Everglades after an attempt to steal an obsolete 17th century nautical chart fragment used to find treasures. In order to solve the crime, Booth seeks out Walter Sherman, a former Iraqi soldier with an uncanny gift to unearth anyone and anything. With Sherman's help, as well as that of his colleague, Ike Latulippe, and his legal advisor, Leo Knox, the team is led to tattoo artist who points them in the direction of a tough young woman. But when the woman is found murdered with remnants of the map lodged in her remains, the team discovers centuries of history linked to the map and the suspect behind the crimes. Meanwhile, Brennan puts Sherman's remarkable skill to the test, and Booth harbors cold feelings toward his former military comrade.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.5/1011 votes#21 - The Titan on the Tracks
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/2006
A train carrying a popular Senator is derailed by a car positioned on the tracks. Brennan works out why the dead body of a rich businessman was placed in the car, and the search continues for her father. The team has a new boss.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.4/1013 votes#22 - Harbingers in the Fountain
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/2009
It's been six weeks since Booth and Brennan have seen each other. Booth has been recovering from brain surgery, and Brennan has been on a dig in Guatemala. Angela's psychic, Avalon Harmonia reveals while reading Angela's tarot cards that there are multiple bodies buried under a Washington,DC fountain. Angela shares the information with Brennan and Booth, but they're both a little skeptical. The lead pans out, and the duo find the remains of 11 bodies exactly where the psychic said they would be. Meanwhile, Sweets has certified Booth mentally fit to return to duty after his brain surgery, but Booth is still experiencing some side effects from the coma.
Director: Ian Toynton
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.3/1020 votes#23 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2005
Pilot episode. After returning to Washington, D.C., renowned forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is called in by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth to aid an FBI investigation involving a set of bones found hidden in a lake.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Hart Hanson
7.1/1034 votes#24 - Brief Candle
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/19/1997
SG-1 discovers a race of attractive people who age extremely rapidly. The situation becomes personal when O'Neill begins to suffer from the same accelerated aging, and must live out the rest of his life on the planet.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Hart Hanson
- 7.0/101 votes
#25 - Tempests
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1997
The Tempest, a rickety old spaceship piloted by space colonists John Virgil and Captain Parker, is on a mission of mercy. It is ferrying two bigwigs from Earth, Dr. Vasquez and Governor Mudry, along with a lifesaving vial of serum to the Tabloss Colony, where an epidemic of Ellysia C is devastating the population. But things go horribly wrong when the ship shifts down from lightspeed and crashes somewhere in space. As he attempts to repair the ship, Virgil is bitten by a strange spider-like creature and passes out. When he awakes, he finds himself sliding between two equally convincing realities. Is he battling for his life against the deadly Ellysia C having already delivered the serum and saved the colony, including his beloved wife and his young son, from certain death? Or is he alive, trapped in a spaceship in the middle of nowhere, with no way out? Or are both realities merely hallucinations, one man's desperate attempt to find hope and heroism in a situation too bleak to face?.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Hart Hanson
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"An Orphan Walks Into A Bar" is the best rated episode written by Hart Hanson. It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Daniel Sackheim. It aired on 1/12/2012 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Boy With The Bucket".